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Explore New Hypothesis Features for Image Annotation, Grading, and More
Hypothesis, UChicago’s tool for social annotation, now includes additional features to help instructors encourage deeper reading among students and set the stage for more meaningful class discussions. Users familiar with Hypothesis or other social annotation tools may...
AI Learning Resources for Educators
As generative AI continues reshaping how we teach, learn, research, and communicate, many instructors are looking for practical ways to build their own AI skills and to help students do the same. Whether you’re redesigning assignments, exploring new tools, or simply...
Faculty Success Story: Jordan Bimm Makes Science Come Alive with the Podcast Studio
This post is the last in a projected three-part series exploring innovative use of podcasting in the classroom by UChicago faculty and instructors. Be sure to read parts one and two as well. Helping students engage with and present complex science to the public is a...
Learn How a UChicago Creative Writing Instructor Uses Annotation to Help Students Read Like Writers
“A reading list is both the heart that animates a course of study and the skeleton on which the course is built.” - William Germano and Kit Nicholls, Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything While students engaging deeply with assigned...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 6: Making the Transaction More Conscious
"Eventually, surveillance capitalists discovered that the most-predictive behavioral data come from intervening in the state of play in order to nudge, coax, tune, and herd behavior toward profitable outcomes. Competitive pressures produced this shift, in which...
Building Classroom Trust with Technology: Create an Honor Contract to Support Academic Honesty
Introduction: Two Approaches to Academic Honesty At the University of Chicago, each incoming first-year student receives a copy of Charles Lipson’s book Doing Honest Work in College. Much more than a symbolic gift, this is a reminder that academic honesty is vital if...
Level Up Your Assessments: A Guide to Migrating from Canvas Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes at UChicago
The academic landscape is constantly evolving, and so too are the tools we use to support teaching and learning. Here at the University of Chicago, our Canvas Learning Management System is a cornerstone of our educational experience. You may have noticed a new option...
Accessibility Features and Updates in Canvas
Canvas has introduced new accessibility features designed to make the platform more inclusive, user-friendly, and equitable for everyone—especially those using assistive technologies. These updates include a new dyslexia-friendly font option as well as improvements to...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 5: Understand Tool Adoption to Prioritize Learning
“Empirical evidence supplied by several researchers indicates that a decision to adopt or reject a new idea is often not the terminal stage in the innovation-decision process. …At the confirmation stage the individual (or other decision-making unit) seeks...
AI in Canvas: Giving You the Facts
The recent decision by Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, to partner with OpenAI and integrate AI into Canvas has sparked confusion and uncertainty among Canvas users, including faculty and instructors who are unsure what this change means for their teaching....
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